David Rutherford

With 22 years in commercial and leadership roles, David has a proven track record of delivering value across corporate, private, and family enterprises, with a focus on outcomes-based performance. He is passionate about maximising opportunities for skills development as well as opportunities for young professionals within this prolonged period of change in which multiple drivers are in play. These include policy direction, artificial intelligence and the changing nature of work and the workplace. Such factors have and will continue to create opportunities and challenges for businesses and emphasise the need to balance agility with resilience.

David lead’s ZRG’s Private Equity business across Europe, a skilled team with deep experience across the talent agenda whose members work together to deliver value at Fund and Portfolio levels. Our toolkit includes the Zi Platform and a first-of-its-kind algorithm focused upon predicting culture fit, both designed to arm clients with leading data and insights to enhance decision-making, drive productivity, and support ongoing leadership development.

Prior to joining ZRG, David was the Markets Leader for EY’s private business in the UK for three years, working with a broad array of clients and third-party platforms. His work included key themes such as growth strategy, digital transformation, and productivity improvement. Prior to EY, David held positions within businesses including BT Syntegra, American Express, and RELX.